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Parental communication deviance: its relationship to parent, child, and family system variables
D Velligan1, A Christensen, M J Goldstein
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1563.
Psychiatry Research
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
Audiotape recordings of family interaction samples from 30 nondistressed and 32 multiproblem families were coded for communication deviance (CD). Maternal CD was found to be higher in families high on measures of "preschizophrenic" child behavior, externalizing or "acting out" offspring behavior, overall family distress, and maladaptive marital and family alliance structures. Paternal CD was found to be higher in families in which offspring were rated high on externalizing behaviors.